Medicaid expansion fight focuses on DSH funding

9:36 AM,
Apr. 10, 2013

Written by

Sid Salter

Mississippi faces both short-term and long-term decisions on the state Medicaid program and those decisions are beginning to be focused more intently on what the real debate has been about all along - whether Mississippi hospitals can deal with the problem of uncompensated care while state government resists a quick expansion of the Medicaid program through the Affordable Care Act or "Obamacare."

First, the Mississippi Legislature has yet to deal with legislation authorizing the state's existing Medicaid for the fiscal year that begins July 1. That's the short-term challenge. ...